I’d guess baby boomers being born in 1980 would be done by people who’d like to view everybody above middle age as old and irrelevant.

That said, I think the idea of these generations is kind of wierd. Like, someone born in 1946 would probably not have a lot in common with someone born in 1964. We’re talking early hippies (maybe even predating hippies) and punks being the same generation. And for gen-x it would be late punks, metal heads and ravers.

Edit: somewhere between boomers and gen-x there’s disco I guess?

I’m sorry, but such a statement is just waiting for someone to google it; NASA used metric for the Apollo missions.

Good question, and I was too lazy to search for a source. basically, statistical research has shown that zip codes of where you were born significantly correlate to income in the Netherlands, even in the same city. It depends partly on geography, but also on general wealth in the street you grow up in. A quickly googled source in Dutch: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/bepaalt-waar-je-bent-geboren-echt-je-kansen-in-het-leven~bc55f410/

The headlines suggest tooth regrow will be available in a few years. And it might, if you’re an infant who’s missing a tooth under specific circumstances. Also, in this case the scientist is hinting at more than he can deliver right now (based on the research), and he conveniently has co-founded a company to develop this drug. Let’s just say I hope to be proven wrong, I could use three new teeth since I lost the previous ones 35 years ago.

In the Netherlands, getting ahead requires a mix of talent, luck, being born in the right zip code and work. I can only guess how this works out in a highly competative economy like the US.

Great article that source, and it seems to agree with me ( I know…)

There is a version of this story circulating in popular media that frames it simply as a drug that grows back the teeth you lost as an adult. That framing is exciting but premature, and it is worth being precise about what the current trial is and is not. The Phase I trial is a safety study, not an efficacy trial. Its participants are healthy adult men missing at least one molar. The trial’s primary purpose is to determine whether the drug causes any adverse effects at human doses, not yet to demonstrate that a new tooth has grown in its place. The timeline for broader clinical use reflects this reality. The development timeline includes Phase I safety trials through 2025, Phase II efficacy trials in children with congenital tooth loss through 2027, and Phase III large-scale trials through 2029. Researchers aim for general availability by 2030. And even when the drug eventually reaches the market, the initial patient population will be children born without teeth due to genetic conditions, not adults who need a molar replaced.

When I was a kid in the eighties, slot machines were abundant and there was no age limit, at least not enforced. So we kids tried it, and basically I got lucky because I never won anything and have never tried them since.

Six weeks each year.

I’ve read about this thing a few times over the last years. It seems all research is done in Japan, there’s a lot of fuss about it, but as far as I know it has never been proven to work if the tooth to be replaced is a permanent tooth. There is a lot of hype from the scientists “wo do believe it will work” kind of stuff.

Sowieso geen stroopwafel.

It’s not. The Dutch are too direct for that.

LOL, hagelslag is just something to put on your bread like peanut butter or cheese. Some like it, some don’t, but I wouldn’t offer a coworker breakfast if they were to pick me up for work.

On-topic; this story is the kind of thing you hear about, but never experience. It’s something that could almost happen, but you’d have to be a cheap skate by Dutch standards to actually do this.

Am Dutch, I would offer to pay for gas while in the car. I would also not ask money for a coffee, even more when it was offered because I would have been late. Which wouldn’t have happened.

Last two weeks I finished Ken Macleods’ “Newton’s wake”. An okay book but not a page turner for me. Decided to re-read the bobiverse books after that, I figured it was time since there’s an upcoming new book. I realised later that the new book will be released as an audiobook first… Currently halfway through number four “Heaven’s river”. The book are still great reading them for a second time.

liberal Western narratives

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt if you mean this political or not. I do want to state that in the Netherlands liberal is associated with the right wing. Not the extreme right, but rubbing against it for sure. So liberal narratives amount to “money to the rich” over here.

I can vouch that you won’t survive eating 296 pizzas.

My cure:

1. Take a walk every day. No headphones or music, just take a walk through your neighborhood, nature if it’s nearby or anything. Aim for an hour each day, at least 30 minutes.
2. Look for non-screen hobbies, or at least non social media hobbies. Things like drawing, writing, making music, woodworking, 3d printing Warhammer, or even reading books. Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t work on your hobbies a lot though.

Besides this I hear people being positive about journaling, but I’ve never tried it.

I’m not sure, if we have semi-pro then it’s more like maybe a few k each year. Also first league has quite a few players who need additional income, the pay as a player is too low, especially the players who don’t play a lot will get paid on a per match base.

“workers” is a disambiguous word in this context, as well as “management”. Source: the rest of the article.

If you really look into stuff like featherbedding, it seems (to me at least) that it’s just a propaganda word for populists. It would be easy to convince someone that others are making more money due to featherbedding, meanwhile never discussing the worth of the work this specific someone is doing. In reality, I’d estimate over 80% of all paid work done today is some kind of this so called featherbedding.